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Every GTA 6 Leak So Far: The Complete CyberLeek Timeline

Eleven leaked gameplay videos in six days. That’s the scorecard of the biggest GTA 6 leak event in history — a daily drip-feed of unreleased footage from an anonymous figure or group calling itself CyberLeek, each clip watermarked, each one yanked and reposted faster than Take-Two’s lawyers can respond. If you’ve been offline since mid-August: welcome back, catch your breath, and let this timeline bring you current. We’ve assembled every leak in order from reporting by GameSpot, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, Kotaku and Rockstar Intel — and we’ll keep it updated as the story develops.

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What Happened

Beginning August 18, 2026, an anonymous entity dubbed CyberLeek began publishing unreleased GTA 6 material: gameplay videos, map images, and a running commentary of demands aimed at Rockstar and Take-Two. Reddit sleuths, as GameSpot reports, believe the infrastructure — the main CyberLeek domain, backup spelling variants, a $CYBERLEEK token and its liquidity pool — was registered as early as August 14 and 15, meaning this was planned, not spontaneous.

Two things confirmed the footage was real almost immediately. First, Rockstar started issuing DMCA takedown notices — you don’t copyright-claim fakes. Second, mapping communities cross-checked the leaked map images against years of reconstructed official marketing material and found the details lined up. Every clip since has shown protagonist Jason Duval; so far, not a single frame of playable Lucia.

Vice City streetscape from official GTA 6 artwork — Vice City — the stage for every clip in the CyberLeek leak wave.

The Full Timeline, Day by Day

August 18 — Basketball, a Manifesto and the Map

The first clip, about a minute long, showed Jason outside the oceanside house already familiar from official marketing — playing basketball. Making a basket raised a Focus level on the HUD, a system whose full role (minigame-only or game-wide) is still unknown. It landed alongside CyberLeek’s “commandments”: Thou Shalt Not Sell Digital Preorders. Thou Shalt Not Sell Fake Single-Player DLC. Thou Shalt Preserve Single-Player Content. The core grievance is GTA 6 shipping without a physical disc — premium editions include a download code, not a disc. A second clip the same day (“Random Video 1”) showed a road altercation with an NPC and a wrench being used as a weapon. Then came the big one: images purporting to show the entire map of Leonida, stitched together from in-game screenshots.

August 19 — Tasers, Zombix and a Six-Star Wanted Level

Clip three showed Jason breaking into a facility with a taser — a weapon type new to the series — cloning vehicle keys, smashing windows, and picking up and wearing a hat from the ground. The HUD displayed vehicle-health and fuel-status bars. A January 2025 Tate McRae track on the radio suggests the footage dates to 2025 at the latest. Clip four, titled “Junkies,” was rougher: Jason kicks a cop off a motorcycle, stabs him, and rides off — triggering what appears to be a six-star wanted level, one more than GTA 5 ever allowed, with a UI warning that police have his description. It also showed a drug called Zombix with diminishing effects the more you use it, and bystanders actively reporting crimes. The same day, consumer campaign Stop Killing Games publicly distanced itself: “Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us.”

August 20 — “Leek” Written in Bullet Holes

The video that changed the conversation. Jason flies a biplane over the city — towering office blocks, spiralling highways, radio stations scrolling by — and then, under apparent direct player control, shoots the word “LEEK” into a wall, bullet hole by bullet hole. As Eurogamer put it, that suggests access to a playable build of the game, not just a folder of captured videos. CyberLeek also threatened story and ending spoilers if publishers don’t change course on digital releases: “No physical discs? Then more leeks!”

August 21 — Subpoenas and a $165K Contact Fee

Take-Two filed subpoenas against Microsoft and Discord in the Southern District of New York (we break down the legal machinery in our crackdown explainer). The same day, a “Contact” tab appeared on the CyberLeek website offering ad space on future leaks — for a 400 XMR (Monero) contact fee, roughly $165,450, which the group insists is “not a ransom.” A hypercar clip of Jason doing burnouts in the Truffade Thrax at sunset closed the day.

August 22 — Gas Stations and the Strip Club

The seventh clip — itemised gas-station services (Refuel $32, Repair $2,429), two store robberies, a slow-motion component-level hypercar wreck — got its own deep-dive here on Vice City Locals. Then the eighth leak delivered what the seventh teased: a full strip club with Easy Rider branding, neon, NPC dancers with warnings not to “come on to” them, and a bathroom cutscene. The watermark: “3mil marketcap = stripclub” — the $CYBERLEEK coin’s value gating further releases.

August 23 — The First “Wasted” Screen and a Malware Warning

Jason’s personal Vapid Ganado gets stolen from under a fuel-spilling NPC, both vehicles explode, and we see the series’ first GTA 6 “Wasted” death screen. A quest prompt then tells Jason to return to Lucia — the first mention of GTA 6’s other protagonist in any leak. Separately, a fake 113GB “GTA 6 ISO” began circulating that Tom’s Hardware testers found is 99.99% empty zeroes wrapped around a 50KB virus that disables your security software. Do not touch it.

August 24 — The Nudist Colony

The latest clip shows a nudist colony in Leonida — pools, hot tubs, dozens of dancing NPCs rendered in startling detail, one of whom physically attacks Jason after he ogles her through binoculars. The watermark asks: “Do you want a Lucia-led prologue?” — dangling story content as the next poll reward. GameSpot’s reporter called it the most detailed nudity ever shown in a game, which is either impressive or alarming depending on your viewpoint. It’s certainly the most Rockstar thing imaginable.

Neon-lit Vice City location from official GTA 6 artwork — Eleven clips in, we’ve seen a dozen corners of Leonida — and not one frame of playable Lucia.

What This Means for GTA 6

The release date hasn’t moved. GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — confirmed, locked, leaks or no leaks. Rockstar’s official “extended look” still premieres on Netflix on August 27.

The game looks more simulated than any GTA before it. Fuel bars, itemised repairs, drug tolerance, six-star heat, NPCs who report crimes and fight back — every clip points the same direction: a denser, more reactive Vice City. The standing caveat applies: this is unfinished internal footage, and everything shown can change, get cut, or ship differently.

Spoiler management is now a survival skill. With ending spoilers explicitly threatened, this is the moment to mute keywords. GameSpot’s own advice — filter GTA, GTA 6 and CyberLeek mentions on your social feeds — is sound. If you’d rather not live in a spoiler minefield for three months, our complete GTA 6 timeline covers everything official, no leaks required.

We cover every leak in detail but don’t embed or link leaked footage — it’s stolen work from hundreds of developers. Everything above is reported from multiple independent outlets. While you wait for November, the PS5 version and Xbox Series X|S version of GTA 6 are available to pre-order now, and things to do while waiting for GTA 6 has the rest covered.